Month: September 2003
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New Michael Moore Book
I hadn’t realised that there’s a new Michael Moore book being published very soon. Dude, Where’s My Country comes out on October 7.
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Alex Cox Being Kicked off BBCi
Noooo. Alex Cox writes that his column next week will be his last. He’s been writing a weekly column for the film section of BBCi for quite some time now. It’s entitled A Director’s Diary but I suppose it’s moved well beyond that. Alex is ever-so-slightly left-wing, and I suppose wouldn’t be popular amongst the…
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Bias At The Beeb
Wow. I guess I’m just living in cloud-cuckoo land. Why do I listen and watch the BBC’s news when it’s so biased? Today the Daily Telegraph, bastion of all things “fair and balanced” is launching Beebwatch, with an article penned by editor Charles Moore. Naturally he has at hand half a dozen instances of bias…
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Towards the End of the Morning
In his new forward to this book, Michael Frayn runs through some of the titles under which the book has previously been published. To be honest, I’m not sure that Towards the End of the Morning is quite the right title still, but it’s the one we’re left with. Since Faber republished this book a…
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The Baghdad Blog
It sometimes seems like everyone and their mum heard about Salam Pax and his blog from downtown Bagdhad in the run-up and lead into the Gulf War. At one point The Guardian republished extensive excerpts from his blog. Anyhow, this book is basically that blog in book form, re-ordered a little, and with a couple…
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White Horses
White Horses is one those TV series I remember from my childhood with enormous fondness. But now comes the news that its theme song by Jacky, which reached No. 10 in the UK charts in April 1968, has been voted the best theme ever in a poll to publicise a new edition of Penguin’s Television…
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Hutton Inquiry and Iraq
So the government have really been shafted by a couple of people in yesterday’s Hutton Inquiry. I’d link to the relevant Guardian stories, but their site’s down at the moment. Here are the headlines: Iraw’s weapons capacity was not accurately represented in the dossier The 45 minute claim was nebulous. Other claims were over-egged Complaints…
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RSS Feeds
Check out the new RSS Feeds on the right hand side of this blog! I think that they look quite cool, and there’s a funky new RSS 2.0 version which should be read quite easily by such programs as FeedDemon (which I’m beginning to learn to get to like). In fact it was only because…
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Google Pull Kazaa Lite
It seems that Google has bowed to pressure to remove listings for sites that distribute Kazaa Lite. If you search Google for “Kazaa”, “Kazaa Lite” and variants thereof, you get a notice: “In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 8 result(s) from this page. If you…
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The Return of Hitchhikers?
According to this article on Mediaguardian, Hitchhikers is returning next year, with an adaptation of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I suppose the big question is, who writes the scripts, and who are they going to cast. I must admit that I’d like to read a bit more from an official source,…
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The Perfect Storm
Well I sat down on Saturday night at a loss for anything to watch on TV, and on a whim, decided that I’d rewatch The Perfect Storm on DVD. Not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but a lot of fun. The interesting thing about it is that obviously it has stacks of…
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Once Upon A Time In The West
I sat down to watch this wonderful Sergio Leone epic on TV last night, and wake up to hear that Charles Bronson’s died! It’s a few years since I last watched this, and the first thing that strikes you is the long drawn out sequences – they’re wonderful. From the opening credit sequence as three…